Monday, November 23, 2020
4:00 PM -
5:00 PM
Online Event
High Energy Physics Seminar
Renormalizable QFT for gravity
John Donoghue,
UMass Amherst,
I will start with a review of how General Relativity can be treated as a quantum field theory, as well as some of its limitations. After a general discussion of the Arrow of Causality in QFT, I will turn to gravity with quadratic curvature terms, which is a potential UV completion of General Relativity. This forms a renormalizable QFT, although it is one with some non-standard features. The talk will try to walk us all through some of what is known about these non-standard aspects.
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